kapotte muziek
Kapotte Muziek is an electro-acoustic
trio of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. They
play live concerts and never make studio recordings.
During live performances Kapotte Muziek explore the minimum input
of acoustic sound to a maximum extent. All sounds originate from
obsolete materials that we have found in the course of our activities.
Every performance is preceded by a 'junk search' to obtain new
sound material. In the past we have used metal (from very small
to very big), wood, paper, plastic, glass, stones etc. Every object
is thoroughly explored for its sound qualities, amplified either
by microphone or by contact-microphone. This is combined live
with pre-recorded sounds of acoustic, environmental and electronic
origin. In this line-up Kapotte Muziek exists since 1995. From
1993 to 1995 Kapotte Muziek were just Peter Duimelinks and Frans
de Waard. Duimelinks and Meelkop are also a member of THU20 aswell
as actively involved as solo musicians. De Waard also plays with
Beequeen, and solo as Freiband and Shifts.
Since 1993 Kapotte Muziek have played
nearly 100 concerts around the world, including the USA, Canada,
Japan and most European countries. They have played art-galleries,
museums, squats, radio stations and rock clubs. Some of these
concerts were part of a workshop, given by the members of Kapotte
Muziek to untrained players, showing them how to produce sounds
by amplifying and playing objects and making field recordings.
They also played spontaneous concerts with people like Illusion
Of Safety, Edwin van der Heide, Rumpeln, Co Caspar, the R.I.P.
and others.
Since 1997 they commision reworks
of their concerts, which were first released as a 7" and
these days on CD. People included are Thurston Moore, Asmus Tietchens,
Troum, Illusion Of Safety, Lasse Marhaug, Leif Elggren, Stavostrand/Wiklund,
Radboud Mens, Boca Raton, Toshiya Tsunoda, Richard Chartier and
Stephan Mathieu.
From 1984 up to 2003 Kapotte Muziek
was also a solo studio project by Frans de Waard, who as such
released a whole bunch of cassettes, LPs, CDs and CDRs. A complete
discography can be found here:
http://www.beequeen.nl/de_Waard/disc/kapotte_muziek_disc.htm
In 2003 the last release was 'Curing Without Killing', after which
De Waard stopped playing solo as Kapotte Muziek.
A selective discography by Kapotte
Muziek (as a trio):
1. Add (Staalplaat, 3"CD)
2. Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat, CD)
3. Columbus, Ohio (Gameboy Records, CDR)
4. Praag/Rotterdam (Pac Rec, CD)
5. Tsurumai (Intransitive Recordings, CD, a collaboration with
Lethe)
A 2005 live recording can be downloaded
for free here:
http://www.earlabs.org/label/lm/lm030.asp?titleid=1395
A review of 'Praag/Rotterdam":
Kapotte Muziek has been around in some form or another since 1984,
when the name was coined for a project founded by Frans de Waard.
Early on he teamed up with Christian Nijs, although they would
not actually play together. Christian would record sounds on cassettes
that he would give Frans to use as source material and manipulate,
as he so desired. In 1987, Christian left Kapotte Muziek to focus
on other musical endeavors and Frans continued on his own inviting
other musicians to submit material for his manipulation. This
approach resulted in Kapotte Muziek collaborations with well know
acts like Merzbow, Odal and Yeast Culture. The mid-nineties saw
Frans team up with Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop for live
performances. While working as a trio live, Frans still approached
Kapotte Muziek's studio recordings as a solo endeavor.
Kapotte Muziek's studio approach
to using "found sounds" that have been created and by
an outside party for their compositions is not mimicked live,
though the groups approach is philosophically similar. In the
Fluxist spirit, the group will find various debris before the
show. Pieces of metal, wood, paper, plastic of all shapes and
sizes are explored for their aural properties using microphones
and contact microphones. These sounds are then combined and mixed
live with some pre-recorded sounds of acoustic, environmental
or electronic origin, to create a composition unique to that specific
time and space. Thus a live performance becomes more of a happening
that what we traditionally think of as a concert. Kapotte Muziek
succeeds in blurring every possible line between art, performance,
and music.
Presented on this disc, a split
label release from PACrec and Chrondritic Sound, are two live
performances by Kapotte Muziek, clocking in at an hour and ten
minutes total. Track one, entitled "Alternativa 95"
was captured in Prague, Czech Republic on 14.12.1995. An incredibly
slow moving drone creeping for close to forty-five minutes, Alternativa
95 is the sound of white noise carried in the wind, building slowly
to a soft apex. The sound is not so much mountains and valleys
as it is gently undulating hills. Moments near total silence are
supported only by a faint rumble of bass that is felt more than
heard.
The second track "I Rip You,
You Rip Me" is from a performance in Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
on 12.06.1998. Its beginning is much more pronounced than its
predecessor. Opening with a staccato rhythm built out of crunches
of static then joined by piercing feedback that is reminiscent
of a tea kettle that has reached a boil "I Rip You , You
Rip Me" makes clear from the opening minutes that it is exploring
slightly different territory. Though the low bass rumble is still
present, this track investigates tones in the higher registers,
tones that at times are so sharp and piercing they may make the
listener wince.
Together the two live documents
featured on this album showcase the work of a band actively engaged
with their surroundings. Creating sound works from objects gathered
from the site of performance the featured compositions read as
aural interpretations of the space in which these actions occur.
One function of an artists is to present individuals with an alternate
view of the familiar or that which is taken for granted. Kapotte
Muziek does just this by creating sound which functions both as
"music" and "conceptual art." Noise-Heads,
and Conceptual Art Aficionados alike will become enveloped by
the atmospheric drones offered on this album.
- Ryan Brown | 2005-09-13
http://indieworkshop.com/music/1974/
this text as pdf here
complete list of concerts here